Misc Photograph Links

Several articles and sites, found by me, and (most of them) by Mark. With or without silly comments from me. (yes, yes, shut up! give us the links will ya!)

Proposed ban on photography on New York City Transit – Articles have been doing the rounds about this ban. I should probably post my one or two photos I took on the New York MTA last August. There’s a couple I like out of the bunch!
Blur to reduce size? – I dunno, it’s not a technique you should use simply to get smaller image sizes but it could be handy. Plenty of other speed tweaks on that site too for website writers.
Do you like beautiful photos? I do. I don’t pretend to be amazingly good at it or whatever but I like what I like. So does Mike Johnston in his latest article. No doubt he’d have a few words to say about my photos! Read the article, he has a lot to share!
I wouldn’t mind reviewing several cameras if I could travel to China and do so! Actually, i’d love to do either of the above so if anyone wants to send me to China leave me a comment below! heh.
What’s Next for Digital Photography? – ooh, I like the idea of putting several CCDs into a camera!
I hadn’t come across Outdoor Eyes before. Looks good! Good info on selling and getting your photos displayed!
Several tips on composition here. I might even get around to reading some of the stuff linked here!
Photo links has some great tips linked to from their site!

Spiders, spiders.. everywhere!

Sitting down to read the Sunday Times yesterday what crawls out from underneath the paper? *shudder* Any sane person would get something to either trap or kill the spider but I grabbed my camera and snapped a few photos!
FWIW, when I was finished I trapped the spider and released it into the garden. It’s bad luck to kill a spider isn’t it?

Digital Panoramas – Panotools and Photoshop

Here’s a good and lengthy article on Digital Panoramas. There are several good tips about taking the photo as well as a walk through using PTAssembler.
Me? I’m still stuck using the GIMP, CBA learning Panotools as I seem to get “good enough” results without them!
The author has a blog post about the article, with links to other stuff he’s written on the subject!

Vivid Light Photograpy #36

The latest Vivid Light magazine is online and there’s certainly a few interesting articles. Mark quoted from two of the articles but I had a quick read of the Nude vs. Naked story. Judging by the comments left, it’s a hot issue among readers of the mag, although to be honest the nudes were very tasteful and hardly worthy of the negative attention they received.
Then again.. “ohmygod! is that Janet Jackson’s nipple?” *shock*